HC Deb 27 January 1954 vol 522 cc1745-6
52. Mr. Glover

asked the Under-Secretary of State for Air what arrangements he is making for the continued employment of the staffs both ground and air who will become redundant consequent on the closing of the Reserve flying schools.

Mr. Ward

These staffs will have the same measure of assistance in finding employment in the Royal Air Force or in civil life as was given to the staffs displaced by the closing of the other flying schools last year.

Mr. de Freitas

Is the Under-Secretary of State aware that while those men who lost their jobs last year are grateful for the assistance they received there are some men, skilled pilot instructors, who have not yet got a job?

Mr. Ward

We have taken as many as we possibly can into the Air Force of those who wanted to come back, and we have even stretched our normal regulations a little to do the best we possibly can for them.